Tonight the Riptide team is heading down to Englewood to swim in the ACES swim meet.  What does this mean for me?  I’m going head to head in the 1650 against girls half my age who are crazy fast (I can’t believe I am old enough to use the expression “half my age”).

My only other experience in the 1650 was last March when I swam in the Colorado Masters Swimming State Championships.  I managed a 22:59 there, so hopefully I’ll improve on that.  Looking back, I am surprised I was able to swim that then, only swimming with masters a few days per week.  You’d think there would be no doubt in my mind that now, after a year of consistent swimming, that I would be able to go faster, but swimming is weird.  Somedays 1:20 pace feels like a walk in the park, other days it’s just doesn’t happen and I don’t know what it is.  The last 3 days (ever since I wrote the post about feeling good again) I’ve felt terrible in the pool.  It’s so up and down.

It’s a race though, and everyone knows that races are completely different than practice.

That being said…my plan tonight is to click off as many 1:20s as I possibly can.  If I can do that for 1650 yards I’ll have a 21:40 which I will be pretty pleased with.  It would also be nice to not finish dead last, but I don’t want to get ahead of myself.

Here goes!
EDIT: 1:20 pace for 1650 = 22:00 not 21:40 =)

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